Improved tea and coffee-service



IRAYEAMANS, or BROOKLYN, New Yorin Letters PatentNo. 104,010, lated June7, 1870.`

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IMPROVED TEA. AND CIFEE-SERYICE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that LIRA YEAMANS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tea andCodec-Services, of which the follcwingis a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the ac:- companying drawing formingpart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents asectional elevation of a tea and coffee-service constructed inaccordance with my invention, and A Figure 2, a plan of the same.

vSimilar letters of referenceindicate corresponding i parts.

This invention relates to tea and codec-services, arranged on stands,and consists in a novel arrangement ofthc several vessels making up aservice on a horizontal turn-table, around a central vertical axis incontradistinctionto over it, in combination with a trunnion support ofsaid vessels, or certain of them.

Prior to describing my improvement, it may here he premised thatcotlee-pots and other similar vessels have previously been arranged onhorizontal turn-tables and suspended by trunnions, so as to be capableof being tilted or swung vertically, as described in Letters Patent No.91,696, issued to me June 22, 1869; but,'in such previous arrangement,said vessel has y been placed directly over the axis of the turn-ta,

blc, and the structure-has only been adapted to a single vessel.

The structure represented in the accompanying drawing is very diierent,and comprises an entire tea and coffee-service, including a coffee-pot,A, tea-pot B, hot-water pitcher C, milk-pitcher l), sugar-bowl E, andslop-bowl F, all arranged upon a horizontal turntable, G, around thevertical axis thereof, the sugarbowl, slop-bowl, and milk-pitcher beingremovable from sockets or pockets on 0r in thc face of the turnhung bytrunnions b b, to swing in standards H H, fast on the face ot'sad table,vwith the spouts or mouths of said vessels facing outward to facilitatetheir use, by tilting, to pour from them into a. tea or coiiee-cup, asrequired, the turn-table having been previously rotated to bring therequired vessel opposite the person using the service.

The horizontal turn-table G is supported and guided or restrained fromshake by a low'er vertical stem, I, resting on a center below andworking in a socket, J, fast to a base portion, K; this insures an `easyor frictionless run ofthe table.

Mounted onthe turn-table G at its center, and secured to it in anysuitable manner, is an upper stem, L, carrying at itstop a disk, M,having locking recesses c made in and around its border, for spoons N,which may be entered edgewise through the recesses and then turned vtoleave them pendent on the disk, as represented in iig. 1. Thisspoon-holder will be found an additional convenience of no smallimportance.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A revolving t'ea and coee-servioe, having its several vesselsarranged on a horizontal turn-table, G, in eccentric relation to theaxis of the latter, and said vessels or certain of them being suspendedby trunnions to swing vertically, substantially as speciiied.

2. The combination ot' the swinging pots or vessels A, B, and C, withthe stationary vessels D, E, and F, the turn-table G, the base K, centersupporting-stem I, and socket J, essentially as shown and described.V

IRA YEAMANS.

Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNEs, R. E. RAnnAv.

